Finance Contract Job Trends in England

Financial
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Finance in contract job vacancies in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Finance over the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 2 2 1
Rank change year-on-year 0 -1 +1
Contract jobs citing Finance 6,358 6,800 9,215
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 22.88% 20.65% 21.98%
As % of the General category 35.48% 35.44% 36.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,266 4,483 6,668
10th Percentile £339 £365 £400
25th Percentile £419 £475 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £580 £600
Median % change year-on-year -5.17% -3.33% +2.56%
75th Percentile £688 £725 £725
90th Percentile £800 £838 £825
UK median daily rate £536 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -6.78% -4.17% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 99 127 89
10th Percentile £15.48 £14.50 £14.00
25th Percentile £19.31 £23.82 £18.75
Median hourly rate £29.27 £35.00 £25.71
Median % change year-on-year -16.37% +36.13% -3.89%
75th Percentile £63.33 £54.50 £49.00
90th Percentile £80.50 £70.61 £68.64
UK median hourly rate £29.27 £33.00 £25.71
% change year-on-year -11.30% +28.35% -20.89%

All General Skills
England

Finance falls under the General Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring common skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 17,920 19,188 24,913
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 64.49% 58.26% 59.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,360 11,708 17,206
10th Percentile £275 £300 £313
25th Percentile £400 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% -2.27% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £777
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,012 979 979
10th Percentile £13.50 £15.00 £14.25
25th Percentile £16.17 £17.44 £16.65
Median hourly rate £25.15 £38.85 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -35.26% +41.27% +10.93%
75th Percentile £47.50 £61.30 £58.67
90th Percentile £71.48 £71.50 £71.26
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £36.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year -30.14% +30.91% +12.24%

Finance
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Finance as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Finance in England

Finance
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Finance.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Finance

Finance
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Finance in England over the 6 months to 18 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Finance in England

Finance
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Finance.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Finance

Finance
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Finance in England over the 6 months to 18 September 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Finance in England

Finance
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Finance within the England region over the 6 months to 18 September 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London 0 4,112 £589 -1.88% 3,485
North of England 0 814 £463 -11.90% 1,132
South East -1 451 £514 +1.28% 2,132
North West 0 426 £450 -11.24% 674
Midlands -3 414 £475 -12.84% 679
Yorkshire 0 362 £495 -5.71% 326
South West +2 296 £575 +9.52% 516
West Midlands -5 266 £500 -13.04% 394
East Midlands 0 144 £415 -10.03% 272
East of England +1 122 £565 +7.62% 425
North East -2 27 £438 -25.53% 144
Finance
UK

Finance
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 209 (3.29%) Confluence
2 160 (2.52%) SharePoint
3 101 (1.59%) Apache Airflow
4 74 (1.16%) Apache
5 66 (1.04%) Microsoft Exchange
6 43 (0.68%) Apache Spark
7 36 (0.57%) CMS
8 32 (0.50%) SAS
9 24 (0.38%) JBoss
9 24 (0.38%) Oracle Workflow
10 21 (0.33%) WebSphere
11 20 (0.31%) IIS
12 18 (0.28%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 15 (0.24%) CICS
14 13 (0.20%) Mattermost
14 13 (0.20%) Skype for Business
14 13 (0.20%) Tomcat
15 10 (0.16%) HCL Notes
15 10 (0.16%) WebSphere Application Server
16 9 (0.14%) WebLogic
Applications
1 408 (6.42%) Microsoft Excel
2 237 (3.73%) Microsoft Office
3 171 (2.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 111 (1.75%) Microsoft Project
5 88 (1.38%) MS Visio
6 27 (0.42%) Sketch
7 17 (0.27%) Spreadsheet
8 15 (0.24%) Oracle Smart View
9 14 (0.22%) Chatbot
10 13 (0.20%) Trello
11 9 (0.14%) InVision
12 8 (0.13%) Adobe Illustrator
12 8 (0.13%) Photoshop
13 7 (0.11%) Adobe XD
14 5 (0.079%) Adobe Creative Suite
15 4 (0.063%) OmniGraffle
15 4 (0.063%) UXPin
16 3 (0.047%) Camtasia
16 3 (0.047%) Snagit
17 2 (0.031%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 225 (3.54%) SAP S/4HANA
2 97 (1.53%) Oracle Payables
3 91 (1.43%) Oracle EBS
4 68 (1.07%) Oracle General Ledger
5 64 (1.01%) Oracle Assets
6 63 (0.99%) Oracle EBS R12
7 55 (0.87%) Oracle ERP
8 53 (0.83%) SAP FI
9 48 (0.75%) Oracle Financials
9 48 (0.75%) Oracle Receivables
9 48 (0.75%) SAP CO
10 45 (0.71%) Aladdin
11 44 (0.69%) SAP FI/CO
12 40 (0.63%) Endur
12 40 (0.63%) NetSuite
13 38 (0.60%) Oracle Cash Management
14 31 (0.49%) Workday HCM
15 27 (0.42%) Dynamics CRM
15 27 (0.42%) Oracle E-Business Tax
15 27 (0.42%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 879 (13.83%) Azure
2 731 (11.50%) AWS
3 397 (6.24%) Power Platform
4 321 (5.05%) GCP
5 190 (2.99%) SaaS
6 189 (2.97%) Microsoft 365
7 147 (2.31%) Azure DevOps
8 132 (2.08%) GitHub
9 117 (1.84%) Dynamics 365
9 117 (1.84%) Snowflake
10 115 (1.81%) Entra ID
11 106 (1.67%) dbt
12 83 (1.31%) OCI
13 65 (1.02%) Figma
13 65 (1.02%) GitHub Actions
13 65 (1.02%) Serverless
14 62 (0.98%) PowerApps
15 53 (0.83%) Power Automate
16 51 (0.80%) Amazon S3
17 48 (0.75%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 138 (2.17%) Firewall
2 68 (1.07%) DNS
3 61 (0.96%) Network Security
4 53 (0.83%) WAN
5 51 (0.80%) TCP/IP
5 51 (0.80%) VPN
6 38 (0.60%) DHCP
7 36 (0.57%) HTTP
8 28 (0.44%) BGP
9 27 (0.42%) WebEx
10 25 (0.39%) LAN
10 25 (0.39%) OSPF
11 23 (0.36%) SSL
12 20 (0.31%) SD-WAN
12 20 (0.31%) VLAN
13 18 (0.28%) Wi-Fi
14 15 (0.24%) SAN
15 14 (0.22%) Skype
15 14 (0.22%) VoIP
16 13 (0.20%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 340 (5.35%) Power BI
2 217 (3.41%) SQL Server
3 198 (3.11%) PostgreSQL
4 131 (2.06%) Data Warehouse
5 126 (1.98%) Relational Database
6 121 (1.90%) Data Lake
7 114 (1.79%) Tableau
8 102 (1.60%) NoSQL
9 88 (1.38%) Amazon Athena
10 86 (1.35%) Oracle Database
11 85 (1.34%) Apache Iceberg
11 85 (1.34%) Dremio
12 84 (1.32%) Apache Arrow
13 81 (1.27%) Oracle Reports
14 75 (1.18%) MongoDB
15 68 (1.07%) Big Data
16 56 (0.88%) Power Query
17 54 (0.85%) Metadata
18 48 (0.75%) Apache Ignite
19 45 (0.71%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 380 (5.98%) JIRA
2 218 (3.43%) Git
3 209 (3.29%) Jenkins
4 83 (1.31%) GitLab
5 73 (1.15%) JUnit
6 48 (0.75%) Selenium
7 47 (0.74%) Postman
8 41 (0.64%) Bitbucket
9 38 (0.60%) Gradle
10 36 (0.57%) Liquibase
11 32 (0.50%) Cucumber
12 30 (0.47%) Maven
12 30 (0.47%) SonarQube
13 29 (0.46%) Mockito
13 29 (0.46%) TeamCity
14 25 (0.39%) Sonatype Nexus
15 24 (0.38%) webpack
16 22 (0.35%) Cypress.io
17 20 (0.31%) Artifactory
18 18 (0.28%) JMeter
General
1 2,120 (33.34%) Social Skills
2 1,395 (21.94%) Banking
3 973 (15.30%) Analytical Skills
4 396 (6.23%) Front Office
5 385 (6.06%) Public Sector
6 327 (5.14%) Investment Banking
7 301 (4.73%) Financial Institution
8 251 (3.95%) Marketing
9 249 (3.92%) Legal
10 236 (3.71%) Manufacturing
11 231 (3.63%) Telecoms
12 178 (2.80%) Presentation Skills
13 164 (2.58%) Retail
14 157 (2.47%) Organisational Skills
15 149 (2.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 149 (2.34%) Influencing Skills
16 136 (2.14%) Electronics
17 112 (1.76%) Back Office
18 108 (1.70%) Documentation Skills
19 103 (1.62%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 1,155 (18.17%) Analyst
2 874 (13.75%) Developer
3 618 (9.72%) Senior
4 578 (9.09%) Business Analyst
5 481 (7.57%) Architect
6 452 (7.11%) Project Manager
7 424 (6.67%) Consultant
8 387 (6.09%) Lead
9 247 (3.88%) Software Engineer
10 199 (3.13%) Data Analyst
11 170 (2.67%) Solutions Architect
12 166 (2.61%) Java Developer
13 157 (2.47%) Senior Developer
14 155 (2.44%) Financial Analyst
15 131 (2.06%) Python Engineer
16 130 (2.04%) AWS Engineer
16 130 (2.04%) Programme Manager
17 116 (1.82%) IT Manager
18 109 (1.71%) Java Engineer
19 107 (1.68%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 274 (4.31%) React
2 218 (3.43%) .NET
3 196 (3.08%) REST
4 190 (2.99%) Kafka
5 156 (2.45%) AngularJS
6 144 (2.26%) Node.js
7 131 (2.06%) Pandas
8 125 (1.97%) RESTful
9 124 (1.95%) Spring
10 123 (1.93%) NumPy
11 103 (1.62%) Oracle Fusion
11 103 (1.62%) SciPy
12 101 (1.59%) Spring Boot
13 95 (1.49%) CSS
14 93 (1.46%) HTML
15 78 (1.23%) Vue
16 74 (1.16%) Redux
17 72 (1.13%) Web Services
18 69 (1.09%) Middleware
19 68 (1.07%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 264 (4.15%) Product Ownership
2 261 (4.11%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 258 (4.06%) Fixed Income
4 217 (3.41%) Derivative
4 217 (3.41%) Onboarding
5 189 (2.97%) Management Information System
6 186 (2.93%) Equities
7 166 (2.61%) Hedge funds
8 157 (2.47%) Cloud Native
9 122 (1.92%) Data Centre
10 116 (1.82%) Legacy Systems
11 106 (1.67%) Data Structures
12 99 (1.56%) Greenfield Project
13 93 (1.46%) Data Protection Act
14 90 (1.42%) Analytical Mindset
15 82 (1.29%) Distributed Systems
16 81 (1.27%) Self-Motivation
17 66 (1.04%) Algorithms
17 66 (1.04%) Public Cloud
18 65 (1.02%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 384 (6.04%) Windows
2 332 (5.22%) Linux
3 132 (2.08%) Unix
4 70 (1.10%) Windows 10
5 50 (0.79%) Android
6 46 (0.72%) Apple iOS
7 44 (0.69%) Windows Server
8 36 (0.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 34 (0.53%) Mac OS
10 9 (0.14%) CentOS
10 9 (0.14%) Solaris
10 9 (0.14%) zOS
11 8 (0.13%) AIX
11 8 (0.13%) VMS
12 4 (0.063%) Windows 8
13 3 (0.047%) HPUX
13 3 (0.047%) Mac OS X
13 3 (0.047%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
14 2 (0.031%) Kali Linux
14 2 (0.031%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,617 (25.43%) Agile
2 1,126 (17.71%) Problem-Solving
3 976 (15.35%) Stakeholder Management
4 683 (10.74%) Project Management
5 676 (10.63%) Migration
6 587 (9.23%) DevOps
7 572 (9.00%) Business Intelligence
8 564 (8.87%) Analytics
9 559 (8.79%) Risk Management
10 548 (8.62%) CI/CD
11 533 (8.38%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 470 (7.39%) Change Management
13 438 (6.89%) ERP
14 437 (6.87%) Decision-Making
15 419 (6.59%) Continuous Improvement
16 413 (6.50%) Roadmaps
17 406 (6.39%) Software Engineering
18 390 (6.13%) Project Delivery
19 340 (5.35%) User Acceptance Testing
20 330 (5.19%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 986 (15.51%) SQL
2 917 (14.42%) Python
3 560 (8.81%) Java
4 341 (5.36%) JavaScript
5 299 (4.70%) C#
6 263 (4.14%) TypeScript
7 182 (2.86%) PowerShell
8 133 (2.09%) C++
9 100 (1.57%) PL/SQL
10 71 (1.12%) Go
11 65 (1.02%) Shell Script
12 62 (0.98%) Bash
13 61 (0.96%) VBA
14 46 (0.72%) R
15 40 (0.63%) Kotlin
16 36 (0.57%) VB
17 30 (0.47%) Groovy
18 29 (0.46%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 29 (0.46%) Rust
18 29 (0.46%) Scala
Qualifications
1 665 (10.46%) Degree
2 406 (6.39%) Security Cleared
3 317 (4.99%) SC Cleared
4 153 (2.41%) Computer Science Degree
5 147 (2.31%) PMI Certification
6 142 (2.23%) PMP
7 103 (1.62%) Master's Degree
8 100 (1.57%) CISSP
9 98 (1.54%) ACCA
10 75 (1.18%) CIMA
11 65 (1.02%) BPSS Clearance
12 57 (0.90%) Azure Certification
13 56 (0.88%) Microsoft Certification
14 55 (0.87%) CISM
15 51 (0.80%) AWS Certification
16 48 (0.75%) DV Cleared
17 40 (0.63%) Cisco Certification
18 37 (0.58%) ITIL Certification
19 26 (0.41%) CBAP
19 26 (0.41%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 258 (4.06%) QA
2 214 (3.37%) Data Quality
3 207 (3.26%) PMO
4 198 (3.11%) GDPR
5 122 (1.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 119 (1.87%) NIST
7 104 (1.64%) Accessibility
8 89 (1.40%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 89 (1.40%) SLA
9 63 (0.99%) IFRS
10 54 (0.85%) PCI DSS
11 39 (0.61%) MiFID
12 35 (0.55%) GRC
13 30 (0.47%) SEPA
14 28 (0.44%) COBIT
15 26 (0.41%) ISO 20022
16 24 (0.38%) EMIR
17 23 (0.36%) Basel III
17 23 (0.36%) PSD2
18 21 (0.33%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 242 (3.81%) Docker
2 220 (3.46%) Active Directory
3 48 (0.75%) VMware Infrastructure
4 29 (0.46%) Virtual Desktop
5 12 (0.19%) Virtual Machines
5 12 (0.19%) vSphere
6 10 (0.16%) VMware ESXi
7 8 (0.13%) Firmware
8 7 (0.11%) Hyper-V
9 6 (0.094%) HDFS
9 6 (0.094%) Microsoft App-V
10 5 (0.079%) Oracle RAC
10 5 (0.079%) RACF
10 5 (0.079%) Tivoli Directory Server
10 5 (0.079%) Virtual Servers
11 4 (0.063%) Veritas Cluster Server
11 4 (0.063%) XenApp
12 3 (0.047%) BitLocker
12 3 (0.047%) Time Sharing Option
12 3 (0.047%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 252 (3.96%) Kubernetes
2 194 (3.05%) Terraform
3 161 (2.53%) Ansible
4 70 (1.10%) SCCM
5 68 (1.07%) Microsoft Intune
6 39 (0.61%) Grafana
7 34 (0.53%) Puppet
8 29 (0.46%) Prometheus
9 23 (0.36%) SCOM
10 21 (0.33%) HP SiteScope
11 17 (0.27%) ITRS Geneos
11 17 (0.27%) Progress Chef
12 15 (0.24%) Jamf Pro
12 15 (0.24%) Kibana
13 14 (0.22%) Oracle RMAN
14 13 (0.20%) Control-M
14 13 (0.20%) QRadar
15 12 (0.19%) Single Sign-On
15 12 (0.19%) vCenter Server
16 10 (0.16%) logstash
Vendors
1 982 (15.45%) Microsoft
2 631 (9.92%) Oracle
3 616 (9.69%) SAP
4 200 (3.15%) ServiceNow
5 151 (2.37%) Google
6 127 (2.00%) Salesforce
7 121 (1.90%) Databricks
8 119 (1.87%) Splunk
9 113 (1.78%) Workday
10 89 (1.40%) Cisco
11 84 (1.32%) VMware
12 81 (1.27%) Citrix
13 68 (1.07%) IBM
14 62 (0.98%) Adobe
15 43 (0.68%) CyberArk
16 41 (0.64%) Ariba
17 40 (0.63%) MuleSoft
18 39 (0.61%) Murex
19 38 (0.60%) Arista
20 37 (0.58%) IFS